Symantec Releases 2011 Norton Cybercrime Report
Symantec, the makers of Norton antivirus and anti-spyware software, released a report today containing a plethora of statistics on cybercrime.
As with any report containing statistics and poll results, we should take some of it with a grain of salt, but the stats make interesting reading. The report is set out in infographic style, so its easy to skim through it. It points out the types of online behaviour that tends to be the riskiest.
The most common – and most preventable – type of cybercrime is computer viruses.
After that comes online scams and phishing.
What is surprising is . . . [more]